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Unlucky Cabbage Merchant

Creature — Human Citizen

When this creature enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Food, you may search your library for a basic land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. If you search your library this way, put this creature on the bottom of its owner's library, then shuffle.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Wizards Play Network 2025
Price
$0.70
EDHREC rank
#9447
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Unlucky Cabbage Merchant card art
Unlucky Cabbage Merchant is a food-generating engine that rewards you for going wide with Humans, and the cost of a three-mana 2/2 is worth paying when every creature you control entering or leaving the battlefield can turn into incremental value. It slots cleanly alongside Tireless Provisioner as a redundant payoff in any deck that wants a steady stream of Food tokens, and the full loop closes fastest under The Cabbage Merchant.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
The Cabbage Merchant

The Cabbage Merchant

71.6% of decks · synergy 0.69

The Cabbage Merchant is the native home for Unlucky Cabbage Merchant — the commander's triggered abilities care about Food tokens entering and leaving play, so every Cabbage the Merchant generates feeds directly into the engine the deck is built around.

02
Gyome, Master Chef

Gyome, Master Chef

25.9% of decks · synergy 0.24

Gyome, Master Chef produces a Food token for each nontoken creature entering on your turn, which means Unlucky Cabbage Merchant triggers his ability every time it or another Human hits the battlefield and then cashes in the Food for political protection.

03
Samwise Gamgee

Samwise Gamgee

23.5% of decks · synergy 0.23

Samwise Gamgee triggers whenever a nontoken creature enters under your control, creating a Food — Unlucky Cabbage Merchant arriving is already a trigger, and any subsequent Human drops keep the loop going and fuel Samwise's sacrifice payoffs.

04
The Goose Mother

The Goose Mother

20.0% of decks · synergy 0.20

The Goose Mother wants as many Food tokens on board as possible to convert into card draw through her activated ability, and Unlucky Cabbage Merchant reliably adds to that pile on every relevant creature trigger.

05
Camellia, the Seedmiser

Camellia, the Seedmiser

17.6% of decks · synergy 0.16

Camellia, the Seedmiser cares about tokens broadly, and while her Halfling focus isn't a perfect overlap, Unlucky Cabbage Merchant's steady Food production gives Camellia decks an additional token outlet that doubles as a sacrifice resource.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Unlucky Cabbage Merchant is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, though Commander is where it actually matters. In 60-card formats the three-mana 2/2 body is too slow and the Food payoff too marginal to compete with dedicated synergy pieces, so the card sees essentially no play there. Commander is its home: multiplayer games give the Merchant enough time to accumulate value, and the critical mass of token and Food synergies in the format means a dedicated shell can reliably abuse it. Oathbreaker is a secondary consideration if your signature spell supports a Food or sacrifice plan.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.70 bulk tier

At $0.70, Unlucky Cabbage Merchant sits firmly in bulk territory — cheap enough to grab as an auto-include in any Food-synergy Commander build without a second thought. Bulk rares with a narrow tribal niche tend to stay here unless a new commander dramatically spikes demand.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.